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Fallen Insurgents?
Anirban Roy

With most of the top leadership on the run or jailed, is armed insurgency on the decline?
Once again there has been a major crack down on insurgent outfits of Northeast operating from neighbouring countries. Some militant leaders including ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa have been nabbed and many more are on the run. Back in Northeast, peace processes are taking new shape; so will the beginning of a new decade see the final fall of insurgency in the region? TNT tries to find out…
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In Netaji’s last camp
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had always been a national hero largely kept on the sidelines due to overtones of nationalist politics. Smog of mystery still surrounds his death. While the ‘how’, ‘when’ and ‘where’ keep baffling many, very few actually know that his last camp on Indian soil was in the northeast. Our News Editor Ratnadip Choudhury travels to Chesezu in Nagaland to bring you the missing link of Netaji’s last days in India.
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A wish for a waltz
Paramjit Bakhshi
At the beginning of this piece let me put up a warning sign.
SLOW DOWN.
No, of course there is no speed breaker here. I couldn’t have put one if I wanted to, on this shiny new paper. However it is around these two words that the article is going to revolve.
In a day and age where everything is about speed, you will wonder whether you have stumbled across some Neolithic writing. ‘Hey stop this nonsense man’ you must want to scream. You will point out that everything that is exciting in this world is fast. There is absolutely nothing as exhilarating as a fast car and nothing as delicious as fast food. We even have exciting fast men and women. Well, try spending a lifetime with all three and you will end with the bonus gifts of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and low self esteem.
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